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June 27, 2019

Spring MVC and MongoDB: A Match Made in Platform.sh Heaven

How difficult is it for a Java developer to create an application that needs to handle front-end technology? It’s a difficult question — and one that I hear every single day from back-end developers. So, how can we solve it in the Spring world? Well, with Spring MVC.

Spring MVC makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade, Spring-based applications that you can just run. In this post, we’ll show the perfect union between Spring MVC, the MongoDB database, and the NoSQL database most popular around the globe, running in the cloud on Platform.sh.

April 1, 2019

Redis for Java Developers: Tutorial and Code Examples

Redis is one of the most popular NoSQL database solutions, and Java is one of the world's most popular programming languages. Although it seems natural for the two to work together, Redis doesn't come with native support for Java.

Instead, Java developers who want to integrate with Redis will need to use a Java client library. Redisson is a Redis-based in-memory data grid for Java that makes it easy for Java developers to work with Redis. Redisson provides implementations of many Java data structures to be distributed and scalable so that they can run on top of the Redis server.

Packages for Store Routines in MariaDB 11.4
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MariaDB 11.4 introduced many advanced features. One that grabbed my attention is the general support of packages for stored routines. Although this was previously available by activating the Oracle compatibility mode, now the feature is available gener... […]
Maintain Chat History in Generative AI Apps With Valkey
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A while back I wrote up a blog post on how to use Redis as a chat history component with LangChain. Since LangChain already had Redis chat history available as a component, it was quite convenient to write a client application. But, that's not the same... […]
Knowledge Graph Enlightenment, AI, and RAG
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In the previous edition of the YotG newsletter, the wave of Generative AI hype was probably at its all-time high. Today, while Generative AI is still talked about and trialed, the hype is subsiding. Skepticism is settling in, and for good reason. Repor... […]
Building an Effective Zero Trust Security Strategy for End-To-End Cyber Risk Management
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You've probably heard a lot about zero-trust security lately, and for good reason. As we move more of our applications and data to the cloud, the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security just doesn't cut it anymore. This makes me come... […]
Phased Approach to Data Warehouse Modernization
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A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems. Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to ... […]